2011/2/2 Gary Chambers <gwch...@gwcmail.com>: > All, > > Given the following Perl script: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > %dig = ( > solaris => "/usr/sbin/dig", > linux => "/usr/bin/dig", > darwin => "/usr/bin/dig" > ); > > $DIG = $dig{"$^O"}; > $DOMAIN = "example.com"; > $DNS = "ns.example.com"; > $DIGCMD = qq/$DIG \@$DNS $DOMAIN axfr/; > > open DIG, "$DIGCMD|" or die "$DIG: $!\n"; > while (<DIG>) { > next if (/^;/); # Skip any comments > # If we match a CNAME record, we have an alias to something. > # $1 = alias (CNAME), $2 = canonical hostname > if (/^(\S+)\.${DOMAIN}\.\s+\d+\s+IN\s*CNAME\s+(\S+)\.${DOMAIN}\.$/) { > # Push an alias (CNAME) onto an array indexed on canonical hostname > push(@{$cnames{$2}}, $1); > } > # Here's a standard A (canonical hostname) record > # $1 = canonical hostname, $2 = IPv4 address > if (/^(\S+)\.${DOMAIN}\.\s+\d+\s+IN\s*A\s+(\S+)$/) { > $ip{$1} = $2; > } > } > close DIG; > > # Format and display it like niscat hosts: > # canonicalHostname alias1 [alias2 aliasN] ipAddress > for $host (sort keys %ip) { > print "$host "; > if (defined(@{$cnames{$host}})) { > print join(' ', @{$cnames{$host}}); > print " "; > } > print "$ip{$host}\n"; > } > exit 0; > > Will someone please provide some insight on how to accomplish that task in > Python? I am unable to continually (i.e. it stops after displaying a single > line) loop through the output while testing for the matches on the two > regular expressions. Thank you. > > -- Gary Chambers > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > As this is a python list, don't expect people understand Perl code (I don't know Perl, for example). But I understand, you call the /usr/bin/dig program and do some text processing on its ouput. Am I right? If so, you might want to give a look at re and subprocess modules.
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